Maritime E-Commerce Association (MECA)

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MeCA - the Maritime e-Commerce Association - is a not-for-profit group of marine business and technical experts who are collectively committed to speeding up the process of marine-related business transactions through the development of application-to-application interoperability standards.

MeCA promotes e-commerce for the benefit of all parties in the marine supply-chain, including ship owners/managers, suppliers and software providers. It does this by developing, maintaining, harmonising and promoting common standards (including technical standards and protocols for interoperability between systems).

Founded in December 1999, MeCA has developed its own XML based standard, called MTML (Marine Trading Mark-up Language). It has widespread support through out the maritime buyer and supplier community as well as with marine supply chain software providers. The latest version is MTML Version 2.0. This support includes close relationships with IMPA (International Marine Purchasing Association) and ISSA (International Ship Suppliers Association).